Also, isn't it comforting that DtecNet / MarkMonitor are going to be the ones responsible for going after people under the new six strikes program? Stories like this really add confidence to the idea that they're going to make a complete mess of the whole thing.
God, let's hope so.
The sooner this kind of stuff (six degrees of striking) fails and is abandoned, the better off everyone will be.
Foward to the days when the legacy web-enabled entertainment industry is trying to prevent people from getting neural implants loaded with all the world's entertainment and knowledge.
Here's a suggestion: don't antagonize people by attaching implicit legal threats to your public profile. All it does is attract the kind of attention you don't want...
Maybe if I put some threatening text at the top of my website, I'll get more traffic than just Google and Baidu
I'm not skilled enough to make this, but I'd love to see a chart which graphs the top 100 or so corporations based on their level of Corruption Laundering.
The rankings could be by the estimated amount of damage done to the economy, or the level of lies, obfuscation or misdirection engaged in. Or perhaps by the size of donations to government officials overseeing relevant regulatory bodies.
This would be a great thing to be able to point people to when they were considering a purchase.
I could see it as a counterpoint to the USTR's bogus 301 report and perhaps, if it got enough notice, corporations would start trying to stay low in the rankings or off the damn thing altogether.
(A quick Google search for "corporate corruption index" shows up some rankings for countries, but there doesn't seem to be anything for corporations yet.)
There is precedence for the claim of negligence in the 1956 case of the Red Haired Girl vs Mr. Lawson in Timbruk, Idaho.
Apparently a local reprobate ( aka "Timmy" according to court records ) used Mr. Lawson's garden hose to drench the Red Haired Girl.
Mr. Lawson was found guilty of "failure to secure a water-dispensing fixture" and ordered to pay court costs as well as the price of a replacement hair band and a new dress for plaintiff's "dolly".
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Feeding the Beast
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The Sooner the Better
God, let's hope so.
The sooner this kind of stuff (six degrees of striking) fails and is abandoned, the better off everyone will be.
Foward to the days when the legacy web-enabled entertainment industry is trying to prevent people from getting neural implants loaded with all the world's entertainment and knowledge.
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Marketing
Maybe if I put some threatening text at the top of my website, I'll get more traffic than just Google and Baidu
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Apparently
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And Then
Landfills full of gigantic pixel-frames?
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Lowly Hobby Blogger
But you'll never know! Mwahaha!
(Of course, that probably has more to do with the fact that only 20 people see my site on any given day.)
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Corruption Laundering Chart
The rankings could be by the estimated amount of damage done to the economy, or the level of lies, obfuscation or misdirection engaged in. Or perhaps by the size of donations to government officials overseeing relevant regulatory bodies.
This would be a great thing to be able to point people to when they were considering a purchase.
I could see it as a counterpoint to the USTR's bogus 301 report and perhaps, if it got enough notice, corporations would start trying to stay low in the rankings or off the damn thing altogether.
(A quick Google search for "corporate corruption index" shows up some rankings for countries, but there doesn't seem to be anything for corporations yet.)
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Hollywood Just Can't Catch a Break
Mike, what you're missing is that the filthy pirates are now managing to leach all the value out of a film before it's even done being filmed!
Sheesh.
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Roseanne Rosanna Kappos
"I thought you said litigation!"
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Whew
I was thinking of buying a smart phone. Looks like that's the end of that silliness.
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And This
What exactly does he think is going to happen to it?
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Heard it Before
"Why would I use the telephone to talk to a friend? If I want to talk to him, I'll go to his house and have a chat."
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Brilliant
You go, guys.
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Zombiewood
TEN YEARS and Hollywood isn't dead yet???
What does it take to kill these bastards?
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Bloody Hell
Sods!
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Uh Oh
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Role Model
Maybe he could get a clue from Alternate Universe Cary Sherman
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Re: Re: Case Law
Aside from their identical levels of inanity.
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Case Law
Apparently a local reprobate ( aka "Timmy" according to court records ) used Mr. Lawson's garden hose to drench the Red Haired Girl.
Mr. Lawson was found guilty of "failure to secure a water-dispensing fixture" and ordered to pay court costs as well as the price of a replacement hair band and a new dress for plaintiff's "dolly".
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It Goes Like This
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